Voters of a Feather, Labour Together
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the Labour Together report into the party's 2019 general election performance, and how Layla Moran is trying to position the Lib Dems to drink Labour's milkshake. Then, in You Ask Us, the gang take your question on Opposition Day Debates and whether they can achieve anything.
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| 1:14.0 | Leila Moran's attempt to steal the kierstarmas clothes, a new report on Labour's 2019 defeat, |
| 1:19.5 | and will you ask us whether or not opposition day debates are any good. So Stephen, welcome back. |
| 1:29.6 | Did you have a nice time off? |
| 1:31.4 | I know you had a little little hiatus where you started |
| 1:34.2 | writing about Whitehall reform but you know that's a holiday. I did yes that was a yeah |
| 1:39.4 | it was a slightly strange thing because obviously it happened and I kind of thought |
| 1:42.2 | like oh you know I made the mistake of going, oh, I'll just tweet the article I wrote on this last time. |
| 1:46.5 | And then of course various people phoned me about it and I thought, oh, I probably should talk about some of the things that these people were saying. |
| 1:52.0 | But other than my holiday being interrupted by |
| 1:54.7 | DFID being merged into the FCO or rather the announcement happening, it was good, it was very |
| 1:59.6 | restful, I went for lots of walks, I had lots of ice ice cream I joined lots of cues for ice cream yeah it was good |
| 2:06.1 | How are those teens getting along who are falling in love on on your estate? I keep thinking about them |
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